"You don't have to. There are Perl modules that export Perl as C" Yep - but a lot of 'em do have problems in the memory department... but at least I can go back through and clean that up. OTOH, I am getting hold of SlickEdit, which is a nice little IDE that does all that conversion stuff for me - then I can pump the results through StackGuard (to fix any overrun potentials), do a final parsing of the results by eyeball, and the code will be guaranteed to be in usable order :) No worries - if you have a working parser/extractor thingy, the rest can be done fairly easily by anyone else - even if they don't know the Poser formats. It makes sense that Poser.exe would have the usual I/O plugs - esp. since it was a conversion of Mac-based code.:) /P